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Ine H. van Liempd; Ora Oudgenoeg-Paz; Paul P. M. Leseman – Child Development, 2025
Object exploration is considered a driver of motor, cognitive, and social development. However, little is known about how early childhood education and care settings facilitate object exploration. This study examined if children's exploration of objects during free play was facilitated by the use of particular spatial components (floor, tables,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Toddlers, Preschool Children, Object Manipulation
Woods, Rebecca J.; Wilcox, Teresa – Developmental Psychology, 2013
A hierarchical progression in infants' ability to use surface features, such as color, as a basis for object individuation in the first year has been well established (Tremoulet, Leslie, & Hall, 2000; Wilcox, 1999). There is evidence, however, that infants' sensitivity to surface features can be increased through multisensory (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Infants, Human Posture, Motor Development, Object Manipulation

Willatts, Peter – Child Development, 1979
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Eye Fixations, Infants, Motor Development

Diamond, Adele; Lee, Eun Young – Child Development, 2000
Examined infants' ability to retrieve an object from atop a slightly larger object. Found that even 5-month-olds could retrieve objects close in size and fully contiguous with their bases when demands on reaching skill were reduced. Proposed that when they fail this task, it is because they lack the skill to reach the top object without…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Infant Behavior, Infants, Motor Development

Ramsay, Douglas S.; Weber, Sherry Lee – Child Development, 1986
Tested infants in their second year with a box task to determine whether they would show a hand preference in solutions involving complete differentiation of roles for the two hands. (HOD)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Infants
Barringer, M. D.; Kosal-Smither, C. – 1982
A resource and activity guide for the developmentally disabled that focuses on methods to teach students skills essential to learning is presented. It is noted that once students begin to acquire these critical skills, they can become active participants in group learning activities, rather than waiting for their turn in individual sessions. They…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Cognitive Development, Developmental Disabilities